>>And BTW, if paging, searching, filtering is not an option and you'd fill the page with many records anyway, then directly writing to response buffer via a reader might help (then it would start displaying fast while page continues to fill up).
>>Cetin
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>Thanks for that tip... I had something like that in the back of my head...

Problem with that approach is that you would have to render the data without using HTML table tag or use multiple table tags in the result. Browsers will not render a table until the closing table tag is received. You would also have to turn buffering off on the page or issue response.flush periodically.